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Back from Queensland



Just got back from a few days up on Hamilton Island in the fantastic Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef.

Highs:

  • Diving trip to the Bait Reef on the Great Barrier Reef and seeing ridiculous amounts of coral and its mindblowing spectrum of reef fish (Nemo), white tip reef sharks and sea turtles
  • Helicopter flight over Whitsunday island with the magical Hill Inlet (picture above) and Whitehaven Beach, Australia’s most photographed beach
  • Hiking up onto the 240m high Passage Peak in the early morning
  • The ever present and very communicative cockatoos
  • More sea turtles and tons of stingrays casually snorkling in Catseye beach just in front of the resort
  • Patting some very tame and cuddly dingos

Lows:

  • Hamilton Island literally being one big resort with everything commercial somehow connected and expensive
  • Bad food
  • Being tickled by a jellyfish
  • My ears struggling with the pressure equalization during the dive

If you’re over 25 you would remember the time before the interwebs and what coming home from a trip brought with it being checking the mail and phone messages then doing laundry. These days I’m always astonished what the digital life asks for. I must have spent hours checking email and Facebook, going through my RSS feeds, updating Wordpress, editing and uploading pictures to my photo blog and create a Facebook album. Much to the displeasure of my needy dog Mack.



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Right, I’m off to Hamilton Island, one of the 74 Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef, for a few days so no posts but here’s a collection of links I collected during the past week:


Toshiba timesculpture


More about the Upscaling product line on toshiba.co.uk/upscaling, the making of the ad, which used 200 Toshiba Gigashot cameras and generated 20TB of data, below:


Olympus autofocus ad



1 artist 1,000 cups


In the last few years I’ve often wondered who the person was that kept beautifying the fence of the bridge over Boundary St here in Sydney. And today I met him doing a little piece next to my house:

Andy Uprock is a Sydney based artist whos work includes transforming streetscapes into large floating cup installations. The method and practice of his work runs parallel to the culture of graffiti and he titles this movement ‘Cuprocking.’

Check out his website and if you’re in Sydney then you might be interested in the upcoming exhibition Trailblazers:


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